 | 1818 - 632 pages
...empires ! and controul In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are oar woe< and sutteranee ? Come and ice The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 79. The Niobe... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 806 pages
...empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day— A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. 79. The Niobe... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 598 pages
...detailed examination must be made the study rather of a life than of a casual visit. 50 Stanza LXXVIII. Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. The traveller who is neither very young nor very incurious, may enquire what previous instruction or... | |
 | 1818 - 600 pages
...subduer. We can but touch partially upon these awful themes. The Palatine is thus described : — cm ' Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted...mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, chok'd up vaults, and frescos steep'd In subterranean damps,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 598 pages
...subduer. We can but touch partially upon these awful themes. The Palatine is thus described : — CVII. ' Cypress and ivy, weed and wallflower grown Matted...mass'd together, hillocks heap'd On what were chambers, arch crush'd, column strown In fragments, chok'd up vaults, and frescos steep'd In subterranean damps,... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...examination must be made the study rather of a life than of a casual visit. Stanza LXXVIII. Come and set. The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. The traveller who is neither very young nor very incurious, may inquire what previous instruction or... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...must be made the study rather of a life than of a casual visit. 50 Stanza LXXVIII. Come and see TJie cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. The traveller who is neither very young nor very incurious, may enquire what previous instruction or... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 624 pages
...the study rather of a life than of a casual visit. Stanza LXXVIII. Come and see TJte cypress, Jtear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. The traveller who is neither very young nor very incurious, may enquire what previous instruction or-... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...detailed examination must be made the study rather of a life than of a casual visit. 50 Stanza LXXVIII. Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way CPer steps of broken thrones and temples. The traveller who is neither very young nor very incurious,... | |
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Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod... 
